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Franklyn Ajaye Biography

Franklyn Ajaye (born May 13, 1949) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. His nickname is "The Jazz Comedian" for his distinctive jazz inflected style of delivery, timing, and astute use of silence. His name is sometimes wrongly spelled Franklin Ajaye.

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Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

Concentration, Lesson Learned, Lessons, Presence, Stage

Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

Arrangement, Experience, Fifty, Ideally, Want

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

Burning, Comedian, Consistent, Desire, Quit

Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on.

Cutting, Extra, Give, Giving, Moving, Punchline

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.

Ghetto, Needs, Pulled, Rap

You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.

Two, Giving, Waiting, Give, Forever, Seconds

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

Television, Reason, Advise, Studio, Nightclub, Treating

Taping yourself and making yourself listen to the tape of each performance no matter how bad is really important. There's always a nugget line or a direction pointed out to you in even the worst show.

Important, Nuggets, Tape, Listen, Worst, Show

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

Comedian, Comedians, Generations, Think, Thinking, Trashing

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

Commonplace, Embraced, Originality, Quickly

A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

Make, Routine, Technique, Transition

Obviously the audience has veto power signified by whether they laugh or not, but you-not them-retain the ultimate power to decide what they're going to get the opportunity to laugh at.

Opportunity, Laughing, Veto, Power, Laugh

You must study their deliveries, their use of their bodies, their timing, and their use of audio and vocal effects.

Audio, Body, Timing, Use, Vocal

Moving to Australia was not a career move, but a quality of life issue. It has no guns, no God, and no gangster rap. As an Ethiopian cab driver said to me the other day when I was returning from a gig in Sydney, Australia is a peaceful, democratic place. I like the relatively stress free lifestyle. It's worth the drop in income.

Cab, Free, God, Moving, Rap, Stress

I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good if you can do that, but I don't like to think that's the way all black comedians are. I'm not that type.

Black, Fact, People, Thinking, Type, Way

An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the audience. Figure out what you're feeling or interested in because the goal is to get the audience interested in what you're interested in. Good stand up comedy is drawing people into your head.

Determined, Drawing, Feeling, Goal, People, Subject

Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your performance a more spontaneous feeling.

Creating, Giving, Performance, Thinking

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

Sports, Golf, Requirements, Dropped, Pants

Don't try to give a funny opinion; give your opinion in a way that will be funny.

Funny, Give, Giving, Trying, Way

If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

Delivery, Fancy, Movement, Smooth, Transition

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